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But you’re not able to change the system until after you’ve made it. In the meantime, you’ll have to find some way to make it suit your purposes—even if those purposes are just extra time to develop properly, to learn from others on their dime, to build your base and establish yourself.

Ryan Holiday • Ego Is the Enemy

Building

How might we: make something well

Curran Dwyer • 1 card

The "skill stack" I would build if I was starting from scratch:
Simple no-code
Basic copywriting
Marketing psychology
The art of the cold email
I would commit to learn these daily over 12 months.
By the end, I'd be able to:
Write
Build
Sell
Distribute

building

Blake J. Graham • 1 card

Ah newthing, we think. I know what you are. Making you will be easy. The path is straight and sure. The newthing hears your boasts and does not react, but knows how much you have to learn. As you build the newthing you will discover that building a newthing is a strange act where the harder you go about trying to do it, the harder it becomes. It wi

Community Building

Solomon Muigai • 5 cards

Being able to build isn’t the same as building everything all the time. It doesn’t imply that you shouldn’t work with other people who might be master builders. Nor does it mean becoming a dilettante at the expense of expertise.

Tim Hoover • Kern and Burn: Conversations With Design Entrepreneurs: Candid conversations with 30 leading design entrepreneurs.

FROM THE MVP TO INNOVATION ACCOUNTING The solution to this dilemma is a commitment to iteration. You have to commit to a locked-in agreement—ahead of time—that no matter what comes of testing the MVP, you will not give up hope. Successful entrepreneurs do not give up at the first sign of trouble, nor do they persevere the plane right into the groun

Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: The Million Copy Bestseller Driving Entrepreneurs to Success

how to drive a startup. Instead of making complex plans that are based on a lot of assumptions, you can make constant adjustments with a steering wheel called the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop.